by Kate Seamons, Newser staff

by Kate Seamons, Newser staff

The Telegraph reports on what it calls the Titanic's "last mystery": What was the fate of Loraine Allison?

The 2-year-old passenger was believed to have gone down with the ship, which would make her the only child traveling in first- or second-class to die on the Titanic.

But no body was recovered, and 28 years later, in 1940, a woman stepped forward claiming she was Allison and knowing details only a family member would be privy to.

Helen Kramer claimed she was put into a lifeboat with a man who, before his death, told her of her true identity and revealed himself to be Titanic designer Thomas Andrews, who was also thought to have died in the sinking.

The wealthy Allison family largely brushed her off over the years, and the story could have ended a mystery with her 1992 death ... except it didn't.

Twenty years later, Kramer's granddaughter, Debrina Woods, started republicizing the claim, posting to online forums, saying she intended to write a book on the case, and selling mugs and mouse pads. The Allison family was equally unimpressed, and even took out a restraining order to prevent Woods from scattering Kramer's ashes over the family plot.